[Nickle]Union values

Carl Worth nickle@nickle.org
Fri, 26 Jul 2002 23:59:50 +0000


On Jul 26, Keith Packard wrote:
 > Around 22 o'clock on Jul 26, Carl Worth wrote:
 > 
 > >  > 	(u) { i = 10 }
 > > 
 > > That's not bad. I'd take that even though it does require a couple of
 > > extra characters.
 > 
 > But you'd rather use the union constructor style instead, right?
 > 
 > 	u.i (10)

I'm not so sure. Now it looks like a "member function" for an object
-- icky.

 > I'm currently digging out of a horrible mess inside the type system 
 > relating to using 0 as a generic pointer and an integer.  I'm deleting a 
 > lot of code...

We must be doing something right then. Fun. :)

-Carl

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